Immigration

The Honduran woman and her 11-year-old son were just preparing to leave the detention center in remote Karnes City, Texas, and rejoin family in Chicago, when officials sprang a surprise on her. After spending two months at the facility, the woman faced a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent insisting she accept an electronic ankle monitor as a condition of her release. "No, this is unjust. I don't want you to put it on," said the 32-year-old woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Nely, due to her pending immigration case. The official, she recalled, told her: "We give you free food, free clothing, a place to sleep. So you just need to...

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Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat, and retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon...

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According to an announcement released Tuesday,...

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President Obama wants to write his own laws on immigration and amnesty ("Immigrants, advocates must wait for deportation relief," Feb. 17).
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Washington is such a phony city. Maybe that's why it has such a good relationship with Hollywood.
In the sequel to a "film" we have seen many times before, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was in danger of shutting down today...

Senate leaders moved toward a deal Wednesday to avoid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, sidestepping a fight over immigration policy. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, declared his administration would curtail deportation of immigrants...

The determination of conservative Republicans to thwart Barack Obama at every turn was clear from the first days after his election in 2008, as their Senate leader Mitch McConnell publicly vowed to make him "a one-term president."
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In less than four months, President Barack Obama is due to roll out one of the most ambitious and controversial programs of his presidency: an effort to grant a reprieve from deportation for millions of adult immigrants living in the country illegally.
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